Asklemmy

In Brittain they often have carpet in the toilet. How tf do you clean that, it will get soaked with piss, you dirty fucking Brits.

I thought most people have tiles or vinyl/linoleum for their kitchen floor. Still, you do know that you can just remove and replace the damaged floorboard instead of sanding and varnishing the entire floor, right?

If your one mistake is attacking your floor with sledgehammer or jackhammer, you may have a point.

Hardwoods & bamboo will weather damn near anything.

Even dog claws will take a few years before the floor begs for a refinishing.

My wife and I had ceramic tile installed in our kitchen when we remodeled our house. Didn't like it so four years later we had it torn out and had oak flooring installed. Couldn't be happier. High quality hardwood floors are really durable.

Throw rugs and tile in mine

Same people install white or cream carpets just before they decide to have kids or a party.

Mostly I have seen it to have seen it with cheaper floating options and even in the bathrooms to have a seemless consistancy throughout a condo. Never seen it done in a house.

it's very easy to sweep and mop!

What the fuck are you doing to your floors?? Hardwood is easy to clean and doesn't crack like tile.

Wear and tear adds to the charm of a well lived kitchen imo

Hardwood floor sealer exists. It's called vitrification

You'd be nuts to install a hardwood floor and not protect it!

It looks nice. And if it's finished well spills will clean if you're quick.

Are dropping kettle bells on your wooden flooring or something 🤣.

You've obviously never slid over to the kitchen sink with socks on. Bonus points for doing a spin.

To me its the same as the thought about survivorship bias .... you want the best flooring material for the place that will most likely get the most damage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

You seldom use the bedroom floor because all you really do there is sleep ... basically wake in the morning and walk on at night before bed. And you seldom bring anything serious into the bedroom like liquids, hot / cold food, drinks or cups or containers.

The living room has moderate traffic and again you don't really use it during the day.

A high traffic area is the bathrooms because everyone goes there on a regular basis.

The most high traffic area in any house will always be the kitchen because everyone is constantly working and walking there .... and it is always exposed to liquids, solids, spills, hot stuff, cold stuff, broken stuff, glass, ceramic, metal, pots, pans. And you sometimes have crowds of people there ... all working and basically scrubbing the floor with all those feet.

It's the reason why you should have the best, hardest and most expensive flooring in any house.

If you are going to invest in expensive flooring ... put it in your kitchen because that is where it will be most useful and last for years in your house. If you install cheap floor in your kitchen, you'll be replacing it in less than 10 years or even less if the flooring is really cheap. After you replace flooring two or three times, it would have been the same cost as buying one good layer of expensive flooring anyway.

Better impact resistance compared to tile, easier to repair than vinyl or linoleum (sand and restain)

What kind of cutlery are you dropping that requires refinishing your floor?